Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 25

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This is a list of selected December 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.

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Martin Luther
Coronation of Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Coronation of Charlemagne
St Mel's Cathedral in 2015
Nicolae Ceaușescu
A Beagle 2 replica
Emperor Hirohito
Mikhail Gorbachev
National anthem of Russia
William the Conqueror and his brothers
Thelnetham Windmill

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2020);	refimprove
800 – In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, Frankish King Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III} as a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople.	refimprove section
1643 – Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary, landed at an uninhabited island and named it Christmas Island.	refimprove sections, unreferenced sections
1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, made its debut at King's Chapel in Boston.	unreferenced section
1926 – Emperor Taishō died of a heart attack, and was succeeded by his son, Hirohito, who ruled until his death in 1989, becoming the longest-reigning Emperor of Japan.	refimprove sections
1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China went into effect, amid the ongoing Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communists.	refimprove
2003 – The Beagle 2 space probe, part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, disappeared shortly before its scheduled landing on Mars.	refimprove section

Eligible

AD 36 – After the death of Emperor Gongsun Shu of Chengjia, the empire was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty.
1046 – Henry III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.
1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, but continued to face rebellions over the following years and was not secure on the throne until after 1072.
1100 – Baldwin I was crowned the first king of Jerusalem (depicted) in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, based on the Christmas hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524.
1758 – Based on predictions by Edmond Halley in 1705, Johann Georg Palitzsch observed a comet that was later named Halley's Comet .
1809 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
1914 – The Royal Navy armed trawler Night Hawk sank after striking a mine, with the loss of six of her crew.
1927 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule, was formed in Hanoi.
1941 – Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.
1950 – Four Scottish university students removed the Stone of Scone, used in the coronations of Scottish and British monarchs, from Westminster Abbey in London.
1968 – In Tamil Nadu, India, families of striking Dalit workers were massacred by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords.
1989 – Romanian Revolution: Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death on a wide range of charges and executed.
1990 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
2000 – Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill officially adopting a new national anthem, with music by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov originally composed for the anthem of the Soviet Union.
2007 – A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.
2009 – Aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.
2016 – A Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
Born/died: | Zhang Jingda|d|936| Makan ibn Kaki|d|940| Peter the Venerable|d|1156| Sverker I of Sweden|d|1156| Lady Grizel Baillie|b|1665| Dorothy Wordsworth|b|1771| Nina E. Allender|b|1873| Otto Frederick Hunziker|b|1873| Young Tom Morris|d|1875| Humphrey Bogart|b|1899| Fatima Massaquoi|b|1912| George Koval|b|1913| Atal Bihari Vajpayee|b|1924| China Machado|b|1929| Sadiq al-Mahdi|b|1935| Sissy Spacek|b|1949| Christine Hakim|b|1956| Justin Trudeau |b|1971| Sylvi Listhaug |b|1977| Joan Miró |d|1983| Billy Martin|d|1989| Zail Singh|d|1994| John Pulman|d|1998|

Notes

Richard Reid/2001 shoe bomb plot appears on December 22, so Umar Abdulmutallab/Northwest Airlines Flight 253 should not appear in the same year
Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island, appears on December 24, so Christmas Island should not appear in the same year
Gongsun Shu appears on December 24, so Chenjia should not appear in the same year

December 25: Christmas (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan

Baldwin 1

1100 – Baldwin I was crowned the first king of Jerusalem (depicted) in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of the Christmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, making laughter audible in singing.
1831 – A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
1991 – In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union.
2009 – A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.

Humphrey Bogart (b. 1899)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b. 1924)
Billy Martin (d. 1989)
Zail Singh (d. 1994)

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